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Eaton Corporation is looking for an Engineering Leader - Sustaining Engineering within their Electrical Sector. This position can be based in Arden, NC, Fayetteville, NC, Charlotte, NC or Greenwood, SC.

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Director Engineering for the Power Distribution and Assemblies Division (PDCA) business, this person will be responsible for Sustaining Engineering/Maintenance of Line (MOL) across the entire PDCA portfolio: Medium Voltage Assemblies (MVA), Low Voltage Assemblies (LVA), Medium Voltage Control Assemblies (MVCA) and Motor Control Centers (MCC). The PDCA business is a $2 billion, 3,500 employee business across North America, with 8 manufacturing locations.

This person will lead a divisional sustaining engineering organization covering Quality, Codes & Compliance, Product Improvement and MOL for all PDCA manufacturing plants. The Engineering Leader will bring MOL engineers together under common standards, processes and priorities while keeping them closely aligned with Manufacturing Operations. The leader will build a shared engineering bench across sites in the U.S. and India.

Essential Functions:
• Define and own the multi-year sustaining and MOL roadmap for the PDCA portfolio, aligned with the Director of Engineering's priorities and divisional business plans.
• Lead the transition of MOL engineers from Operations into R&D Engineering while maintaining uninterrupted support to every plant.
• Drive product quality and field issue resolution in partnership with plant quality
• Ensure codes, standards and certification compliance across the portfolio
• Govern Engineering change management and configuration control
• Identify end-of-life components and supplier-driven changes early and put mitigation plans in place before production is affected.
• Lead alternate-source qualification with Supply Chain, including technical evaluation, testing and certification impact.
• Drive product improvements that strengthen manufacturability, reliability, safety and customer experience.
• Deploy one divisional intake and prioritization process for requests from plants, Product Management and Customer Order Engineering.
• Implement common sustaining engineering processes, tools and templates across every site
• Partner across the engineering lifecycle with NPD, VAVE and Systems Engineering
• Recruit, develop and retain sustaining engineering managers, leads and engineers across the NA and India

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading people and teams.
• Experience in sustaining or product engineering within electrical power distribution or control equipment manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of product codes, standards and certification processes
• Experience with switchgear, motor control centers, or low and medium-voltage assemblies is preferred
• Legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship

Eaton Leadership Attributes:
• Effectively drives and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new and innovative ideas.
• Demonstrates professional presence, communicates articulately and confidently.
• Effectively leverages functional and cross-functional resources to solve problems, improve processes and meet objectives.
• Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills.
• Demonstrated success in effectively and confidently providing "leadership" to employees in a constantly changing environment.

Education:
• An undergraduate degree is required. A Master's degree is preferred.

Compensation:
• Eaton recognizes this role as a critical position within the corporation and will create a compelling package consisting of a base salary, employee incentive compensation and complete benefits.

Location:
• This position can be based in Arden, NC, Fayetteville, NC, Charlotte, NC or Greenwood, SC.

At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $165000 - $242000 a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

About Eaton

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Engineering

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